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Garden of Healing Yoga and Wellness Celebrates Second Anniversary

It has been over two decades since Carla Haynes and Wendy Miltner, co-owners of Garden of Healing Yoga and Wellness Center, met and began exploring healing and meditation. In 2010, the women opened Garden of Healing Yoga and Wellness Center in New Brunswick with a desire for healing and growth. The Garden of Healing Yoga and Wellness Center will be celebrating the beginning of its second year with a week of demonstrations, special ceremonies and other events in April.

Garden of Healing Yoga and Wellness Center offers a variety of yoga classes, including Power Yoga, Hatha and Flow. They boast five yoga instructors, a Reiki Master, Afro-Brazilian Capoeira artists, drummers and a sitar player. In March, guest teacher Burcu Gokcek is providing workshops in Pranayma, Prenatal and Weight Loss Yoga. In addition to wellness therapies such as Biomat, Therapeutic Massage, Energy Healings and Gong Cleansings, the center offers extras like free wellness chats and courses like Yoga of the Heart—a lifestyle improvement program for persons with cancer and cardiac disease. There are drum and dance workshops, special events and a gift shop which features locally made and fair trade goods.

Location: 49 Bayard Street, 2nd Floor, New Brunswick. For more information, please call 732-718-8381 or visit AGardenOfHealing.us.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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